Having previously floated the prospect of becoming independent, KCET is making good on that threat and has announced that it will sever ties to PBS at the end of the year. The decision stems from a ...

Pubcaster KCET Los Angeles is overhauling its digital multicast channels in preparation for its split from PBS. The KCET Orange channel that previously helped distrib the station in Orange County will ...

It’s been an interesting decade for noncommercial educational TV station KCET-28 in Los Angeles. In October 2010, the station announced that it could not reach an agreement with PBS to remain its main ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — PBS station KCET said Friday it’s dropping out of the public TV system and going independent because of a dispute over fees and programming. Starting in January, the Los ...

After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and remake public TV in the Los Angeles market, the city’s biggest public station announced last week that it is ...

In 1996, when Al Jerome first signed on as the president of KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, he had grand plans for the station. A longtime commercial broadcaster and former NBC executive, ...

KCET-TV has already made clear that it will no longer be telling children how to get to “Sesame Street.” But that’s not the only kiddie fare that the public- television station is relinquishing once ...

KCET President and CEO Al Jerome has posted a message to viewers "to start a conversation with you" about whether the station should stay with PBS or break away to become an independent station. Part ...

KCET, the most prominent public TV station in Southern California for the past 40 years, announced Friday it will leave the PBS network at the end of the year and no longer carry such popular programs ...

KCET will become an independent public station on January 1, the station announced, citing an "inability to reach an agreement on a reduction in PBS fees and greater programming flexibility." KCET ...

KCET in Los Angeles, going independent of PBS membership on Jan. 1, 2011, has announced its lineup. Pubcasting programmers have been waiting to see how the station will fill its schedule without ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles PBS station KCET says it’s leaving the Public Broadcasting System and going independent because of a dispute over fees and programming. In a statement Friday, KCET ...